Changing account order in TBird 1.0.2

I have 10 email accounts & 2 news accounts. Is there any way to
re-order how the appear in the left hand vertical pane? I'd like to
change which one appears at the top, etc. Looked in the various TBird
..dat's, .ini's, & of course set up, if it's in any of these I missed it...

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Dan wrote:
> I have 10 email accounts & 2 news accounts. Is there any way to
> re-order how the appear in the left hand vertical pane? I'd like to
> change which one appears at the top, etc. Looked in the various TBird
> .dat's, .ini's, & of course set up, if it's in any of these I missed it...
>
> TIA
>
> Dan

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Doug G wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>
>> I have 10 email accounts & 2 news accounts. Is there any way to
>> re-order how the appear in the left hand vertical pane? I'd like to
>> change which one appears at the top, etc. Looked in the various TBird
>> .dat's, .ini's, & of course set up, if it's in any of these I missed
>> it...
>>
>
> http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/ns7mailacctord.html

Well that's one way to do it. The Folderpane Tools extension is a much
easier way. Some people have left comments saying it doesn't work, but
I've had no problems with it.

Damian Dollahite wrote:
> Doug G wrote:
>
>> Dan wrote:
>>
>>> I have 10 email accounts & 2 news accounts. Is there any way to
>>> re-order how the appear in the left hand vertical pane? I'd like to
>>> change which one appears at the top, etc. Looked in the various
>>> TBird .dat's, .ini's, & of course set up, if it's in any of these I
>>> missed it...
>>>
>>
>> http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/ns7mailacctord.html
>
>
> Well that's one way to do it. The Folderpane Tools extension is a much
> easier way. Some people have left comments saying it doesn't work, but
> I've had no problems with it.
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&id=258
>
>

Thanks for the replies. I looked at the method suggested by Doug,
looking at the line
"user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts",account1,account2,account3,account4")
I assumed the order listed would reflect the order in which the accounts
now appear, using this assumption I re-ordered them as I wanted, some
changed, some didn't. Weird. I'll give the plug in a try. Seems like
a simple drag method would be a good addition...

Dan uitte de volgende tekst op 26/06/2005 17:51:
> Damian Dollahite wrote:
>
>> Doug G wrote:
>>
>>> Dan wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have 10 email accounts & 2 news accounts. Is there any way to
>>>> re-order how the appear in the left hand vertical pane? I'd like to
>>>> change which one appears at the top, etc. Looked in the various
>>>> TBird .dat's, .ini's, & of course set up, if it's in any of these I
>>>> missed it...
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/ns7mailacctord.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Well that's one way to do it. The Folderpane Tools extension is a
>> much easier way. Some people have left comments saying it doesn't
>> work, but I've had no problems with it.
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&id=258
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for the replies. I looked at the method suggested by Doug,
> looking at the line
> "user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts",account1,account2,account3,account4")
> I assumed the order listed would reflect the order in which the accounts
> now appear, using this assumption I re-ordered them as I wanted, some
> changed, some didn't. Weird. I'll give the plug in a try. Seems like
> a simple drag method would be a good addition...

Doesn't seem like a "bug" so much as a design oversight. Anyway, I
tried the extension, works pretty well. The email account I'd like to
have at the top is not the "default" email, which apparently MUST be at
the top, but it's way better than the order I had before. I've never
understood why a "default" email account needs to be declared; why not
just send from the account I'm using at the moment? In the case of news
accounts, allow an email address for each of those as well.

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